Issues

Campaign themes

2014

Excerpt: "Revise the method for determining the "Prevailing Wage" within the current enabling legislation. This will allow more state infrastructure jobs to be undertaken and increase employment for skilled and non-skilled workers."

Excerpt: "I will introduce legislation to make Delaware a "Right to Work" state. Good jobs are fleeing Delaware and we are rarely even considered for new major manufacturing or assembly facilities. Every new or expanded U.S. auto assembly plant has gone to RTW states."

Transparency

Excerpt: "Many state agencies are exempt from responding to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. I will ask for an analysis of all exemptions and introduce legislation to rescind unqualified exemptions. You must know how your tax dollars are being spent."

Taxes

Excerpt: "I will NOT vote for the pending "water tax" that charges property owners with a new fee based on the area of land they own that is not permeable, (the Maryland model), or a surcharge added to the current assessed value property tax."

Excerpt: "I will NOT vote for an increase in the gasoline motor fuel tax."

Excerpt: "I will press for legislation that will eliminate the Gross Receipts Tax. Start-up businesses that have high sales volume may not be profitable but are subject to this tax. It is a job inhibitor."

Transportation Trust Fund

Excerpt: "The intent of this legislation was that certain fees and taxes, one being the motor fuel gasoline tax, were to be collected and held in trust to be spent for construction and maintenance of Delaware's roads, bridges and other items of infrastructure. The Trust Fund is being disregarded and funds moved to balance the General Fund. I will push for legislation to prevent the continuation of this practice."

Delaware Economic Development Office

Excerpt: "This agency has a current budget of approximately $55 million. I will press for legislation that will require this agency to report quarterly and post on the Delaware State website the names of recipients of all grants and loans made; and, a status and a performance report on loans remaining. "

Scorecards

Legislative scorecards are used to evaluate elected public officials based on voting record. Some scorecards are created by political advocacy groups with a focus on specific issues, while others are developed by newspapers and are broad in scope. Scorecards are meant to be used as a tool for voters to have a quick picture of whether their views align with a particular legislator's record.

Because scorecards can be specific to particular issues or general to a state’s legislative term, for example, each report should be considered on its own merits. Each entity that publishes these reports uses different methodologies and definitions for the terms used.